13 of the Wackiest Beauty Trends (Ever!)

Bad Beauty Trend: Mega-Pastel Eyeshadow

Time machines may not be real, but one look at seriously pastel eyeshadow and we feel like we’ve been transported to an ’80s prom. Did this look totally wash out our faces? Yep. Did it sorta make us look like we were wearing cupcake frosting on our lids? You betcha. These pretty eye makeup hues work only in small doses.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Perms

Miss Bradshaw, we’ll forgive you: Even some of the chicest style icons are guilty of having a beauty mistake or two. Not only were those old-school perms kinda funny-looking, as evidenced here, but does anyone remember how completely gross they smelled? We’re glad this trend took a nosedive (get it?!).

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Bad Beauty Trend: Teased Bangs

Teased bangs, how did we ever think you were a good idea—especially with a straight hairstyle? Oh, the horror of having a cream puff sprouting from the hairline! We can barely recall this beauty look without needing to sit down and catch our breath.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Million-Mile-Long Nails

Loooooong nails were something we never quite understood—how does a gal press the elevator button? Use chopsticks? Dial a number on those itty-bitty cell phones? In the name of all things functional, we declare this one of the most insane beauty trends e-v-e-r.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Super-Bleached-Out Hair

Not only do we have the mega-nail situation going on here, but this is a double beauty DON’T! Those poor, poor bleached-out tresses: No look is worth totally destroying your hair. Trust us.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Tanning With Baby Oil

Who can resist a way to get a sun-kissed bronzed complexion? Um, we can when it comes to soaking up the rays with baby oil, like they did in the ’70s: Hel-lo, skin cancer. Ouch! Just say, “No, thank you” and reach for the SPF instead.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Beehive Hair

While the ’50s and ’60s saw a serious revolution in style, some trends are better left in the past. Case in point: The beehive, ‘cause a hairstyle really isn’t fun if you’ve got to worry about it hitting the door frame.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Wild Drawn-On Eyebrows

We’re all for amping up sexy, au naturel brows with a little brow pencil action, but the shaving off and starting from scratch look is taking things a wee bit too far. “It’s three o’clock and my eyebrows have melted off!” is not a good look.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Skunk-Inspired Highlights

One terrible beauty trend we’re still seeing too much of? Skunk-y highlights. Why not opt for other ways to celebrate the animal kingdom besides turning your pretty locks into a streaky mess?

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Bad Beauty Trend: Colored Tips

If you’re a high-profile glamazon like Katy Perry or Rihanna, color can be a bold way to make a look-at-me statement. But for those of us who dunked our tips into a jar of Manic Panic? Well, let’s just take a sec to celebrate the ability to untag photos on Facebook, shall we?

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Bad Beauty Trend: Cupid’s Bow Lips and Goth Makeup

Here’s a beauty double whammy. Cupid’s bow lips might have been ultra romantic in the olden days, but they’re not quite fit for the 21st century—especially when they’re in a color that should never land on your pretty lips.

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Bad Beauty Trend: Allover Crimped Hair

If only we could take a bullet train back to the ’90s and snatch those crimping irons straight from vanities across the country while yelling, “Control yourselves, ladies!” A little touch of texture here and there can work, but we’re all for ditching the waffle-fry hairstyle.

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Bad Beauty Trend: the ’60s Flip

If this doesn’t channel our mothers’ old yearbooks, then nothing does. We just can’t understand the idea behind this hairstyle, since we’re having a hard time remembering the last time we needed handlebars on our ‘do.